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Productions.) Novelizations of the era were commonly released weeks, even months, prior to a film's release, in the hopes that a strong selling book might drum up interest and even critic-proof the movie; but to have one designed to let the reader infer that it was the basis for the film that it was itself based on... well, it was a strategy worthy of Arch Hall himself. The novelization's subsequent tie-in edition, published under the revised title,
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general. Erlenheim and his underling, Sergeant
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in the guise of a non tie-in, standalone novel, in
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review said, "The most irritating fact is that it could have been a really hilarious picture, but every time the action shows promise of better things to come, it bogs down in the same old static situations and these receive no help from
William Brower's script or Jack Webb's direction."
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Carlisle (who would later distinguish himself as a war historian) to
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Colonel Edwin Martin, the base commander. Sergeants
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Beacham, Russell
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the Bowers script, which he did, under his by-line, delivering it as the first-person memoir of a character named Burns instead of Bowers (first name still Bill). The adaptation was published as
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